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Quotes About Difficulty

To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.
~ Tom DeMarco
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
~ Pablo Picasso
In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
~ Baba Kalyani
Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.
~ Gareth Barry
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.
~ Oscar Wilde
Then I must learn how to be happy.  Once I knew it, or thought I knew it, by instinct.  It was always springtime once in my heart.  My temperament was akin to joy.  I filled my life to the very brim with pleasure, as one might fill a cup to the very brim with wine.  Now I am approaching life from a completely new standpoint, and even to conceive happiness is often extremely difficult for me.
~ Oscar Wilde
I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
More and more, it was beginning to be borne in upon me what a particularly difficult chap Gussie was to help. He seemed to so marked an extent to lack snap and finish. With infinite toil, you manoeuvred him into a position where all he had to do was charge ahead, and he didn't charge ahead, but went off sideways, missing the objective completely.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I give you my word that, until I started to tramp the place with this child, I never had a notion that it was such a difficult job restoring a son to his parents. How kidnappers ever get caught is a mystery to me. I searched Marvis Bay like a bloodhound, but nobody came forward to claim the infant. You would have thought, from the lack of interest in him, that he was stopping there all by himself in a cottage of his own.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
She gave the impression of smiling with difficulty, possibly for fear of getting wrinkles.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Nobody, living or dead, makes things easy even when you love them. Especially then.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
it was easier to make a million dollars than to put a phrase into the English language.
~ Dale Carnegie
Perhaps a better explanation for why it's so difficult to feel our feelings is that all emotion, positive or negative, opens the door to the nature of reality. All of us prefer to avoid pain—but even more, we want to escape reality.
~ Dan B. Allender
Penjelasan paling sederhana biasanya adalah penjelasan yang paling sulit dipahami
~ Dan Brown
We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness of being human. —Pablo Neruda, Toward the Splendid City
~ Dan Millman
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
~ Daniel Defoe
Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.
~ Daniel Quinn
Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.
~ Reed Markham
Now she has, although it's a difficult relationship.
~ Mary Magdalene
It's going to be a long, hot summer, we know that. It's going to be very difficult.
~ Tom DeLay
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
~ John Steinbeck
Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.
~ Roger Moore
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
~ James Laughlin